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GASKET PLATE.

No. 330,846. Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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GEORGE WV. MOULTON, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE TEXTILE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OFSAME PLACE.

CASKET-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330.8%6, dated November 17, 1885. Application filed .Iune 10, 1885. Serial No. 168,284. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MoULroN, of vVestiield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gasket- Plates, of which the following is a specifica tion.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved casketplate. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the tasteningwings belonging to said plate, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a portion of my plate, taken on the line 00 x of Fig. l.

A designates the body of the plate or the plate proper, which may be in any pleasing deiign.

Instead of having the complete plate ofsuch form that when resting upon a flat surface its entire edge will come in contact with said surface, I elevate theplate by means of fastening-wings a at the respective corners of the plate, which wings are perforated near their lower ends for the introduction of fastening screws or nails in securing the plate 2 5 upon the casket. The plate proper,A,is made hollow, as if struck up from sheet metal, and by preference is so struck up. The wings a are made with an offset or shoulder upon their outside,-above which shoulder the wings are made to fit the under side of the plate A at the respective corners. A fastening screw, 1), is employed to secure the wings to the plate A, the lower edge of said plate resting against the shoulder on the wings, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. By the employment of these fiISlLQI1- ing wings the plate is elevated above the casket, so that theupper surface thereof may be seen for some distance under the plate. The plate has no extended base that is, no base which extends continuously throughout its contour-and said plate has but a very small bearingsurface, so that it is readily and firmly seated in place Without any liability of marring the surface over which it is mounted.

While I prefer to form the wings separately and attach them in the manner described, it is evident that they may be attached by other means, or made integral with the plate proper and produce substantially the same formof base and elevated plate.

I claim as my invention The hereindescrihed casket-plate consisting of the elevated body A, and the fasteningwings to, extending downward from the corners thereof, substantially as described,and for 5 5 the purpose specified.

GEORGE TV. MOULTON. WVitnesses:

J. O. BROOKS, S. B. CAMPBELL. 

